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the Internet is flooded with inaccurate information about circumcision that is is aimed at scaring parents instead of presenting health information. Read the studies that show it's benefits, read the studies that show the risks. If you still can't decide for yourself, talk to some highly rated pediatricians about these studies and then come up with your decision.

If you are uninsured, it tends to run $150-400 if it's done in the hospital when the child is born. It can also be cost-effective if done in a physician's office. If it's done after the baby has gone home and has to come back to the hospital, or go to a surgery center, then add up to $1000 for a facility center.
Ignore all the scare-tactic spewing fearmongers, and do what you want to do. Do your own research!

My child lives in constant pain from infections despite cleaning daily. My son was born in South Korea and the doctors told us that there was no point in doing it. We kept cleaning but he was constantly getting infections. We kept taking him back to the hospital and we finally found a Doctor that confessed that they simply don't want to do it even though it would be worth any risks in my childs case. I don't have any religous reasons for wanting it done. I was fine with leaving him uncircumised but at this point I just can't bear to see him go through life in pain. I'm still not crazy about him having surgery "down there" at 6 years old but I feel that I don't have much of a choice if he is going to live a normal life and be able to walk normal. I wonder if the people opposed to this surgery are against having tonsils removed as well? It's your decision though, your child could be lucky and not have any infections. You can roll the dice but if you have to do the surgery later.... ouch.

"Insurance doesn't cover the surgery because the CDC does not see it as medically necessary but stands neutral on it because in Sub Sahara African men there was a much lower incidence of AIDS."
True, circumcision reduced a man's risk of contracting HIV, the AIDS virus, through heterosexual sex by 51 to 60 percent compared with men who were not circumcised in those African trials. However, those are not the only studies to show that. Another study, published in the journal Pediatrics in November, followed 510 New Zealand newborns until age 25 and found that circumcision cut the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases by about half.
â??There have probably been hundreds over the years showing that circumcised males have lower rates of urinary tract infections, penile cancer and a variety of STDs, including HIV,â?? says AAP president Dr. Jay E. Berkelhamer.
So, believe the doctors and the scientists or the "naturalists", it's your decision though.

Insurance doesn't cover the surgery because the CDC does not see it as medically necessary but stands neutral on it because in Sub Sahara African men there was a much lower incidence of AIDS. Otherwise they would be against it. As for religion if people actually went to the highest most educated level of their church, their sacred scripture, they would realize no religion on earth actually mandates this procedure. Which comes to why no insurance will cover it, it's because there is no evidence that it will better life. In fact it is harmful and the doctor who performs it can be prosecuted by the child/children it's performed on. To have it done in a hospital it's a few hundred depending on where you live. If it's done at a religious site I believe it's much cheaper.

Most people don't do this anymore and insurance usually doesn't cover it because it's not medically necessary and can kill the baby hundreds die a year. I know the financial cost is a few hundred dollars at least. And the only medical evidence is from circumcised Sub Sahara men having a lower AIDS rate. I don't know anyone who has cut their son more boys are whole then cut now. Which means its' gonna be kinda weird if I boy has part of his penis cut off, I've heard kids ask if other kids are mad or sad that they don't have all of their penis.

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